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Introductory Remarks by John H. Knox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

John H. Knox*
Affiliation:
Wake Forest University School of law

Abstract

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Type
International Environmental Justice: Possibilities, Limits, and Tensions
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

* Edward Cameron and Daniel Magraw did not submit remarks for the Proceedings.

1 See Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection (Boyle, Alan & Anderson, Michael eds., 1996 Google Scholar).

2 UN OHCHR, Rep. of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Relationship Between Climate Change and Human Rights, UN Doc. A/HRC/10/61 (Jan. 15, 2009).

3 See generally UN OHCHR, Human Rights and Climate Change, at www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/cli-matechange/index.htm (last visited Feb. 8, 2011).

4 See, e.g., UN OHCHR, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: Issues in Focus, at www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/food/issues.htm (last visited Feb. 8, 2011).

3 UN Env’t Programme, High-Level Expert Meeting on the New Future of Human Rights and the Environment: Moving the Global Agenda Forward, at http://www.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/Events/HumanRightsandE-nvironment/tabid/2046/language/en-US/Default.aspx (last visited Feb. 8, 2011).

6 The Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, published by Edward Elgar.

7 See, e.g., Boyle, Alan, Human Rights or Environmental Rights? A Reassessment, 18 Fordham Envtl. L. Rev. 471, 498 (2007)Google ScholarPubMed; Int’l Council on Human Rights Policy, Climate Change: A Rough Guide (2008); Docherty, Bonnie & Giannini, Tyler, Confronting a Rising Tide: A Proposal for a Convention on Climate Change Refugees, 33 HARV. Envtl. L. Rev. 349 (2009)Google Scholar; Knox, John H., Climate Change and Human Rights Law, 50 VA. J. Int’l L. 163 (2009)Google Scholar.